Ok, Casey, sorry missed that one, I am a bit rushed. However please note that the question is not actually answered. It gives a third party fact bite with a tag on "about you":
The job of the Wikimedia Foundation is to provide easy access to information, for people all over the world - free of charge, and free of advertising. As a non-profit, it is dependent on your help to do that. Your donations directly support some of the most popular collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the world's top ten most popular websites and the largest encyclopedia ever compiled in human history.
It should say:
You should support the WMF to help give better access to free reference to people all over the world. The Wikimedia projects, such as Wikipedia have been hugely successful in realising an amazing vision of people sharing knowledge. However there is still a long way to go until everyone can have free access to pooled human knowledge, and maintaining what we have already done also costs money. You can be part of our achievements and our vision by donating.
When we reworded our charity website in less formal language in 2004 online donations went up by a factor of twenty overnight from the same traffic. It is very important
Andrew
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Andrew Cates Andrew@soschildren.org wrote:
FAQs like "why should I support WMF" and "what difference will my donation make" for example are rather sadly absent and the "what does this pay for" reads like "go and read the F***ing accounts stupid".
Oh, really? http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Questions/en#Why_should_I_donate_... LI
-- Casey Brown Cbrown1023
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